Darrell Issa timeline

Car alarm magnate

This 1992 file photo shows Darrell Issa, president of Directed Electronics Inc., with the company Viper brand radar detectors. Issa bought a struggling Cleveland electronics business and within a decade transformed it to produce the popular Viper automobile anti-theft device, with Issa’s voice as the warning to would-be thieves to “stand back.” He and his wife, Kathy, moved to Vista in 1985. (Tony Doubek / San Diego Union-Tribune)

On Feb. 2, 1998, Darrell Issa speaks before a crowd in his company’s warehouse as he announces his candidacy for U.S. Senate. After years of backing other Republican candidates, Issa spent $9 million of his own money in his first bid for public office, only to lose the GOP primary in part due to news reports that he had been arrested for car theft decades earlier (charges were dropped) and allegations that he benefited from a suspicious fire in 1982 at his Ohio factory and lied when taking over his car alarm company. He lost to then-state Treasurer Matt Fong, who in turn lost to incumbent Barbara Boxer. (David Carlson / U-T file)

1998 Senate run

x.issa1.0207.dc photo by david carlson Darrell Issa speaks before a crowd in his company’s warehouse as he announces his candidacy for U.S. Senate. User Upload Caption: 02.07.1998 Darrell Issa speaks before a crowd in his company’s warehouse as he announces his candidacy for U.S. Senate. (U-T File photo by david carlson/north county times) (David Carlson / U-T file)

2000 Congress

Congressman-elect Darrell Issa (bottom left), a Republican from Vista, and other new representatives assembled on the steps of the nation’s Capitol for their formal portrait in November 2000. Two years after his failed Senate run, Issa was elected to the 48th Congressional District, replacing Rep. Ron Packard, R-Carlsbad, who had retired. (KENNETH LAMBERT / AP)

Recall

Rep. Darrell Issa, with his wife, Kathy, choked up on Aug. 7, 2003, as he announced he would not be a candidate for governor. Issa bankrolled the successful petition drive to recall Democratic Gov. Gray Davis. (Bill Wechter/U-T file photo)

President George W. Bush prepares to sign H.R. 5683, to preserve the Mt. Soledad Veterans Memorial in San Diego, Calif., Monday, Aug. 14, 2006, at a signing ceremony in the Oval Office of the White House, which will provide for the immediate acquisition of the memorial by the United States. Joining President Bush at the signing, from left to right, Bill Kellogg, president of the Mount Soledad Association; Philip Thalheimer, chairman, San Diegans for Mt. Soledad National War Memorial; U.S. Rep. Brian Bilbray, R-Calif.; U.S. Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif.; U.S. Rep. Duncan Hunter, R- Calif.; and Chuck LiMandri, chief counsel, San Diegans for Mt. Soledad National War Memorial. White House Photo by Paul Morse (Paul Morse / White House Photo Office)

Touring border tunnel in 2006

OCTOBER 4, 2006, SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA, USA_ .................................. Congressmen Brian Bilbray and Darrell Issa get an up close look at the tunnel that crosses the U.S. border into Mexico. The tunnel was discovered by I.C.E. back on January 25, 2006, and travels about 1/2 mile to the border, where it crosses into Mexico about a 1/4 mile. Mandatory Credit: photo by Nelvin C. Cepeda/San Diego Union-Tribune/Zuma Press,. Copyright 2006 San Diego Union-Tribune (Nelvin C. Cepeda / Getty Images)

cadiu--Nuclear Plant Problems--April 6, 2012, San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station---San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station plant manager Tom McCool (right) discusses steam generator issues at the plant with Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Ca., (L) and Nuclear Regulatory Commission Chairman Gregory Jaczko. Also pictured is Southern California Edison executive Ron Litzinger. The SCE plant is currently closed beause of unexepected wear on new steam generators in the two reactors on the site. The issue is being investigated by the NRC, the plant and industry experts. Photo by Lynn Sakamoto of Southern California Edison.

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Facing reporters in 2015

FILE -- Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) speaks to reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington, Oct. 9, 2015. Facing what some rated as one of the most competitive races in the country, Issa on Jan. 10, 2018 announced that he would not seek re-election. (Zach Gibson/The New York Times) ** Usable by Chicago DigitalPlus and SD Only ** (ZACH GIBSON / NYT)

SAN DIEGO_Donald Trump spoke at the San Diego Convention Center Friday May 27, 2016 to his supporters on a two-city swing through California a week before the California Primary. |Congressman Darrell Issa, left, greets presidential candidate Donald Trump.|John Gastaldo/San Diego Union-Tribune

Incumbent Darrel Issa for the 49th Congressional District sits during a television interview at Golden Hall on election night. Issa won a ninth term by roughly 1,600 votes, a narrow 0.6 percent victory margin, after fending off an unexpectedly strong Democratic challenger in former Marine Col. Doug Applegate. Issa had gotten at least 58 percent of the vote in his eight previous campaigns. Applegate and others had made Issa’s support of Trump a central issue. (Nelvin C. Cepeda / San Diego Union-Tribune)

Protestors rally at Issa’s Vista offices in January 2017

Debbie Boyd, left, a retired deputy sheriff, came to the Jan. 31 rally outside Issa’s Vista office as a storm trooper, with her sister Cathy Chrystal. The protest drew more than 125 people. The demonstrators held signs that covered many issues - health care, immigration, the cabinet nominees - but the common theme was resistance to the actions and agenda of the new president. (Peggy Peattie / San Diego Union-Tribune)

Demanding a town hall in May 2017

May 9, 2017_Vista, California_USA_| Anti-Issa and Trump protesters assemble along Thibodo Road in front of the office building where Darrell Issa’s offices are located. At lower right is Reverend Dr. Beth A. Johnson, of the Palomar Unitarian Universalist Fellowship in Vista. |_Photo Credit: Photo by Charlie Neuman (Charlie Neuman / )

Speaking to the rallying crowd in June

SAN DIEGO, CA June 2nd, 2017 | Congressman Darrell Issa speaks to a crowd of people outside his office during a time scheduled for open office hours on Friday in Vista, California. | (Eduardo Contreras / San Diego Union-Tribune) (Eduardo Contreras / San Diego Union-Tribune)

Holding a town hall in June

June 3, 2017_San Juan Capistrano, California_USA_| Darrell Issa speaks at the Town Hall Meeting in the theater at San Juan Hills High School. |_Photo Credit: Photo by Charlie Neuman (Charlie Neuman / )

At congressional picnic in June

U.S. Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) attends the annual Congressional Picnic on Thursday, June 22, 2017 on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, D.C. Issa will not run for a 10th term in Congress. (Ron Sachs/CNP/Zuma Press/TNS) ** OUTS - ELSENT, FPG, TCN - OUTS ** (Ron Sachs/CNP / TNS)

Protest in Vista

August 15, 2017, Months after the inauguration, hundreds of protesters still rally weekly on a Vista side street outside the office of the Republican congressman. (Howard Lipin / San Diego Union-Tribune)

In San Diego with Sessions in September

SAN DIEGO, CA.- Sept. 20, 2017, Duncan D. Hunter, right, Darrell Issa, left. US Attorney General Jeff Sessions visited the Coast Guard Cutter James at the 10th Avenue Terminal in San Diego to see more than 25 tons of cocaine and heroin taken from smugglers in the waters off of Central America. PHOTO/JOHN GIBBINS, Staff photographer, San Diego Union-Tribune) copyright 2017 (John Gibbins / San Diego Union-Tribune)